France, April 6 -- A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa.

In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a children's story during a Covid-19 lockdown. What began as a family project has since blossomed into Xam Xam - an organisation teaching school children in Senegal andCote d'Ivoire about environmental protection through storytelling and tree planting.

"Everybody told me: 'You've have been working to protect the environment in Senegal for 20 years, so why not make it into a project?' And that's how the story began,"Wust told RFI.Planting knowledge

Named after the Wolof phrase meaning "knowledge sharing", Xam Xam uses the childre...